It looks like 2015 will be permeated with more legal issues for
Chahal, who is now the CEO of another ad-tech startup,
Gravity4.

Gravity4's former senior vice president of global marketing Erika
Alonso sued Chahal and his company on Tuesday.

Alonso claims she was harassed, discriminated
against because of both her age and gender, and that she was
secretly and illegally spied on during her job interview there.
According to the complaint, Chahal searched for and hired a
female executive in order to shed his "gender-biased image." You
can read the entire complaint, which was filed to the Superior
Court of California, in full below at the bottom of this post.

King says that the company does not hire based on gender, age, or
ethnicity, that the company does not operate any surveillance
equipment in its office for interviewing purposes, and that there
are a number of "false accusations" in the suit.

Chahal also comments: "As
Chairman and CEO of Gravity4, I am shocked at these allegations,
as they’re simply baseless, false, and can not be supported by
facts. We are very clear on knowing what the motives were on
having this case filed, and look forward to defending it and
clearing the name of Gravity4 based on actual facts.”

“I applaud all of my hard-working employees regardless of their
age, gender, or race that have grown Gravity4 to become my
biggest success yet, in just these 9 months.“

More bad news for "G"

Gurbaksh
Chahal.Getty Images/Charley
Gallay

The suit not only claims he was extremely unprofessional in his
relationship with Alonso, but that he sought revenge on his
former company RadiumOne.

The allegations come after Chahal was
accused of beating his girlfriend multiple times at his home one
evening last summer (The
prosecution dropped felony charges, but he pleaded guilty to two
misdemeanors, domestic assault, and domestic violence, after a
plea bargain. He was sentenced to three years probation and
ordered to complete a 52-week program that included domestic
violence intervention, and to perform 25 hours of community
service.)

The issues started before
Alonso even joined the company, according to the suit. Alonso
claims that when she was called for an interview with Gravity4
last November, she was brought to a conference room where she was
grilled by the interviewer for her thoughts on Chahal's criminal
history, and whether she thought he had really assaulted his
girlfriend. According to the complaint, Alonso later discovered
that the room had been bugged with cameras and microphones, and
that Chahal had been secretly watching the interview, texting
questions to the interviewer.

The suit also alleges that the
company's president at the time, Wayne Powers, indicated to
Alonso that Gravity4 was seeking to hire a woman to assist the
company in rebuilding the brand, which had been damaged by
Chahal's conduct being reported in the media.

Things got worse after Alonso
decided to join the company. The suit alleges that Chahal and
Gravity4 discriminated against Alonso because she was a woman
above the age of 40. It claims that the company said that as a
woman, she should "appeal" to female reporters, that Alonso was
"unduly" criticized, while male employees and those younger than
her were lauded, and that she was fired because she was not part
of the "boys club" at Gravity4.

Here's one scene detailed in
the suit:

When Alonso indicated that she
was not comfortable with drinking hard liquor, and asked if she
could join them with a glass of wine, Chahal aggressively
insisted that she "do shots" at which point she agreed, as a new
employee in a high-pressure situation with her new employer. This
was not the only instance in which Chahal strong-armed Alonso
into drinking shots of hard alcohol. This happened again once she
was employed by Gravity4 on December 17, 2014, December 18, 2014,
January 7. 2014, and January 8, 2015, all at company dinners and
parties.

The suit claims Alonso noticed
a "constant theme of revenge" against Chahal's previous employer,
RadiumOne, which is a direct competitor to Gravity4. It
claims:

Chahal habitually made
statements disparaging RadiumOne, including, but not limited to,
calling RadiumOne employees "a**holes" and stating, "I can't wait
to get those f*ckers" Upon information and belief, the latter
comment related to his attempts to purchase RadiumOne, despite
the company's rejection of purchase offers from Chahal and/or
Gravity4.

Harmeet Dhillon is Erika
Alonso's attorney.Twitter/pnjaban

According to the lawsuit, Chahal bragged that he had the
several-thousand-member contact list of RadiumOne (sensitive,
potentially trade secret information), and he had instructed
employees to send Gravity4 press releases to all the contacts on
the list — but removing any RadiumOne employees, so his former
company would not become suspicious.

Alonso says she realized she had been terminated from the company
on or around January 30, 2015, when her e-mail was abruptly
disconnected and her photo was removed from Gravity4's website.
At around that time she also received a letter from Gravity4's
external human resources company, letting her know her contract
had been terminated.

Defending Alonso in court is
Harmeet Dhillon, a high-profile attorney who has a history of
taking on cases for domestic violence and civil rights victims.
As Forbes notes:

She is vice chairwoman of the
California Republican Party and experienced domestic violence
herself at the hands of her first husband. She has done legal
work to defend Sikh civil rights, and she and Chahal are both
Sikhs — something that she said did not affect her decision to
take on the case. But she added that his domestic violence case
was “a source of embarrassment” for the local Sikh community. “He
is an individual, but this is not consistent with the values we
are taught,” she said.